The May Morning Dew in June
The monastery of Orval in Belgium is amazing and this was my little moment of meditation.
Folk Covers (home rec.)
The Ballad Of Claudy
Some songs can’t be sung just like that and to me “The Ballad Of Claudy” by James Simmons is clearly one of that kind. In the early days of our band The Doggy Dike we had regular gigs in a pub called “The Lowlander” in Bodegraven. It was at…
The Irish Brigade In Battle
This song I found after I read about a young Catholic boy, Theodorus Schrama, from Hillegom, Holland, who went to Rome in 1867 to defend the Church against Garibaldi. He became a Papal Zouave and died a few months later at the age of eighteen. When Pope Pius IX called…